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Finish Reading: Freedom to Marry Celebration – July 3, 2015

The Care Team is looking forward to hosting Professor Mary Giffin from Walsh University on Tuesday, May 5 at 7:00 pm for her performance and presentation, Should I Give Up?  The presentation will be held in Fessenden Hall, will last for about an hour, and is open to the larger community.  Anyone who is contemplating questions of aging or disability for themselves or with their loved ones may find this program helpful.

The 10-minute dramatic monologue “Should I Give Up?’ portrays an 83-year-old woman seeking meaning and purpose in her last years.  This piece engages the audience with questions, challenging them to take action to assist the elderly and disabled.  Discussion, led by the presenter, follows the performance and usually lasts 30-45 minutes.

After the program, the members of the Care Team will be glad to discuss the work of the team with anyone who may be interested in learning more about how to get support or how to become involved in offering support.  Please contact Rev. Melissa with any questions prior to the event.

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References used for last Sunday’s service, “Revelations of Beauty”, by Rev. Melissa, Worship Associate Mary Lou Holly, and congregational member Shirley Kiernan, are below.

Rabia of Basra’s work is from, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, edited by Daniel Ladinsky.  The Navajo poem, “Eagle Poem”, may be found in Joy Harjo’s collection called, How we Became Human.

Shirley Kiernan’s reflection, “How I Learned to Love Weeds”, included her use of the book, This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, by Joan Dye Gussow.

Lee Brooker would like to share his experience of the UU Living Legacy Marching in the Arc of Justice conference in Birmingham last month.

Please join him for a discussion on Friday, May 1, at 6:30 pm in Fessenden Hall.

The Library committee is working on a new system of classifying all the books in our collection. We feel this will make it much easier for the congregation to access our holdings, and easier for the committee to keep track of those books in circulation. It is a daunting task, but we are making substantial progress. Books may continue to be checked out, but the committee urgently requests that all donations be suspended until we have finished this process. We cannot store or evaluate any donations until we have completed the project. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to contact a member of the Library committee, and we thank you sincerely for your cooperation.

Congregational Information Meeting on April 22 and TWO Voting Meetings on Sunday, April 26

 

Dear Members of the UU Church of Kent,

You are cordially invited to a special congregational meeting to discuss the proposed new church by-laws. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 22nd in the church sanctuary at 7PM. The proposed new by-laws are attached for your review. Please bring questions and comments to the meeting or contact a board member with your questions and comments. The church board has endorsed the proposed new by-laws.

The congregational special meeting to vote on the proposed new church by-laws will take place on Sunday, April 26th in the church sanctuary between the first and second services. Only active church members may vote. Absentee ballots can be obtained in the church office. Absentee ballots must be turned in to the church moderator Max Grubb 24 hours before the vote. A quorum of 25% of active church members present at the time of voting is required.

Sincerely, Vivien Sandlund

For the Church Board of Directors

Click here to open the Proposed New Bylaws

Much appreciation goes all of our members that provided insightful feedback and suggestions at April 8 Leaders Information Meeting and the April 22 Congregational Information Meeting. The Bylaws Revision Team took all the suggestions under consideration and incorporated many of them into the Proposed New Bylaws.    The amended Proposed New Bylaws can be access below in two formats – one with tracked changes and a clean copy.

Click here to open the amended Proposed New Bylaws with tracked changes 4.24.2015.  

Click here to open a clean copy of the amended Proposed New Bylaws 4.24.2015.

 

 

Congregational Voting Meeting: Second Vote for Capital Campaign  

There will be a congregational meeting on Sunday April 26 after second service (12:45PM) to review and discuss the findings of the feasibility study. This study, which is being conducted by a UUA consultant, will provide us information on our readiness for a campaign, including an estimate of what we can likely raise. There will also be a second vote at the meeting to authorize the capital campaign; this is to provide the congregation an opportunity to indicate their support  for the campaign in light of the findings of the feasibility study.  A quorum is needed, please plan to attend this important meeting. Absentee ballots are available by contacting the Church Office at [email protected] or 330.673.4247.

Marion Yeagler and Kathy Kerns, Capital Campaign Team co-Chairs

As we wind up this year’s Stewardship Campaign, thanks to all who have turned in their pledge cards. For those of you who have not yet done so please turn them in as soon as possible so we may move forward with our budgeting process.

Pledges can be made online through the website, http://kentuu.org/giving/stewardship/ , by emailing your pledge amount to MaryBeth at [email protected], or by putting you pledge card in the offering basket during Sunday’s services. Thank you.

The Patricia Pownall UU Book Group will be meeting on Tuesday, April 14 at 7 pm at the home of Shannon Ossorio. Meet at the church at 6:30 if you want to carpool. This month we are reading The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian. The Sandcastle Girls is a spellbinding tale that travels between Aleppo, Syria, in 1915 and Bronxville, New York, in 2012—a sweeping historical love story steeped in the author’s Armenian heritage. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, the First World War is spreading across Europe, and she has volunteered to deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide. Elizabeth meets Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has lost his wife and infant daughter. Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British Army in Egypt, and he begins to write Elizabeth letters. He soon realizes that he has fallen in love with the wealthy, young American woman. Flash forward to the present, where we meet Laura Petrosian, a novelist living in suburban New York. Laura has never really given her Armenian heritage much thought, but when a friend calls, claiming to have seen a newspaper photo of Laura’s grandmother promoting an exhibit at a Boston museum, Laura embarks on a journey back through her family’s history that reveals love, loss—and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations. In May we will be reading All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. In June we will be reading The Love Song of Miss Quennie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce. If you have any questions you may contact Bonnie Harper. All are welcome.

 

 

 

 

 

Each year between Easter services the Middle School youth host an egg-cellent Easter egg hunt! We ask that those with children nursery age through grade 5, who would like to participate, please head immediately after first service to Fessenden Hall. The egg hunt will begin promptly and take place outside (weather permitting).

Parents of preschool age children and under are asked to participate with your child.

…please join us Friday April 3, 7pm at  Fessenden Hall for a showing of Secondhand Lions. This is a fun filled movie with lots of laughs and a strong message of hope, belief and faith.. good for the entire family. Rated PG.

Please feel free to bring your favorite snacks to share…Hope to see you there!!!

For all you vegans out there this Sunday’s Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser is for you!

This Sunday our host Shirley Kiernan, along with some of her friends, are offering us VEGAN pancakes and VEGAN Sausage!  We will even have a vegan syrup option for all you sweet tooths.  Last time Shirley made us Vegan pancakes they sold out, but this time we plan on making a larger quantity.

In addition to vegan offerings we will have plain pancakes, veggie sausage along with meat sausage.

Upcoming Pancake & Food Fundraising events to look forward to:

April – NO pancakes in April but I’d like to do a Baked Potato Bar Fundraiser on April 12th – if you would like to help with this event please let me know

May – We will have TWO pancakes Sundays in May:

May 3rd – The 150th Celebration Committee will host pancakes

May 31st – Hogwarts is returing to the kitchen to whip up something yummy for us

June – OPEN – volunteer now!

July – Parents with Young Children will be our hosts

August – OPEN – volunteer now!

If you’d like to help with one of these OPEN events, please let me know.  No experience required and it’s a lot of fun; contact Meg Milko.

UU Church of Kent Sanctuary

Join David Bair and friends for an afternoon of conversation and music. David invites you to view and discuss his current art exhibit during this fellowship opportunity.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent Members,

We now have visualizations of the site and floor plans for the proposed expansion of our church facilities.  This visualizations will also be available for viewing on Sunday, March 29 at our Congregational Voting Meeting.

The Voting Meeting will be held between services at 10:50 AM in the Sanctuary.  We encourage all active members to come in order to establish quorum and vote on the motion to authorize the Capital Campaign Team of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent to proceed with a capital campaign to fund the expansion and improvement of our facilities.  If you are not able to be present, an absentee ballot can be requested through the Church Office by calling 330.673.4247 or emailing [email protected] by 4 PM on Friday, March 27.  Absentee ballots must be submitted to Moderator Max Grubb twenty-four hours prior to the vote to ensure that they will be counted.  A simple-majority 51% affirmative vote of the active members present and those who have submitted absentee ballots will be required for this motion to pass.  Absentee ballots do not count towards determining quorum.

Site Plan

Fellowship Hall Floor Plan

Fellowship Hall Main Entrance Visualization

Fellowship Hall Rear Patio Visualization

Fellowship Hall Visualization

Classroom Visualization – Fellowship Hall

Church Sanctuary Floor Plan

Sanctuary – Balcony View

Sanctuary – Floor Level View

Sanctuary – Floor Level Rear View

Church Lower Level Classroom Site Plan

 

 

Unitarian Universalist Vision Statement: 

Our vitality and passion call us to restore and expand our space to equal the energy of our dreams.

As we do, we are better equipped to carry on our historic legacy and embrace our potential

for connection, service, programming and outreach.